The family of murdered Kansas abortion provider George Tiller announced on Tuesday that his Wichita clinic will not re-open, leading some abortion-rights advocates to voice concern about access to the procedure, the New York Times reports. read more…
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Obama’s True Colors: Appointee Opposes Abortion and Birth Control,” Bonnie Erbe, U.S. read full article…
The following summarizes recent editorials responding to the shooting death of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, who was one of the few physicians in the country providing care for women in need of the procedure later in pregnancy.~ read more…
President Barack Obama has long urged the opposite sides of the abortion debate to find common ground where they can and to respect each others’ differences where they can’t. And that was before the slaying of Dr. George Tiller, the head of one read more
Although President Obama’s supporters might claim to “nurse a persistent hope that he might be able to end the culture war” their “real hope is a final victory for cultural liberalism, and social conservatism’s permanent eclipse,” New York Times columnist Ross Douthat writes in an opinion piece. read full article…
NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Thursday examined President Obama’s efforts in his first 100 days in office to keep his campaign pledge to bridge differences between abortion-rights supporters and opponents. Obama reiterated this goal in his read more…
President Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal released on Thursday would eliminate funding for two abstinence-only sex education programs that total about $145 million, replacing them with funding for programs to prevent teenage pregnancy, the read more…
The Texas Senate voted 20-9 last week to approve a bill (S.B. 182) that would require abortion providers to offer women seeking the procedure the option of undergoing an ultrasound and viewing the results, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. read full article…
The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined the efforts of 20-year-old college student Lila Rose, an antiabortion-rights advocate who films hidden-camera videos at Planned Parenthood clinics around the country and then posts them on the Internet with the aim of creating negative publicity for the organization. read more…
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ (D) veto of the latest measure (S.B. 218) in “an unending series of restrictive abortion bills” in the state “guaranteed” that her confirmation as HHS secretary “would become a battleground in the increasingly nasty campaign being waged against officeholders who are both Catholic and Democratic,” read full article…
